Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After only two days' debate, the House voted 271-1 for the huge bill. The one dissenting vote was cast by Manhattan's hot-eyed Representative Vito Marcantonio, who talks a lot about U.S. aggression and not at all of Russian aggression...
Last week, a quarter of a century later, Frankie's star had come to rest in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan's downtown Foley Square. He was on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government. On the indictment, Frankie was listed under the pseudonym by which he was more widely known: Eugene Dennis. He was general secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...Little Kremlin. All but the most secret Communist operations in the U.S. were, and still are, directed from the ramshackle, nine-story loft building at 35 East Twelfth Street, not far from Manhattan's Union Square. To its top-floor offices came the Communist International "Reps," the shadowy men with the changeable names like P. Green, G. Williams, A. Ewert, H. Berger, which in a wink of the eye might become Drabkin, B. Mikhailov, Braun or Gerhart Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along...
...National Committee for Education on Alcoholism announced plans to place fund-raising coin boxes in Manhattan saloons. Campaign slogan: "You Can Drink. Help the Sick Alcoholic Who Can't-Al-coholism Is a Disease...
...Travelers in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal could count on a baffling summer. The New York Central R.R. will continue to operate on Standard time, while the New York, New Haven & Hartford this week will switch over to Daylight Saving. Sixty-three clocks in Grand Central are being refitted with two hour hands: a black one for Standard, a red one for Daylight...